Aspirants need to get 100 signatures from voters for AAP tickets in LS polls

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has adopted an innovative way of choosing candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Vadodara wing of the party, which launched its “Umeedwar Khoj Drive” on Wednesday, is now seeking nominations for Lok Sabha elections through a public opinion drive where aspiring candidates must gather signatures of at least 100 voters from their electoral constituency to be eligible for consideration while selecting a candidate.

Apart from this, AAP workers will interact with the masses and ask them to suggest names of good candidates. Apart from submitting a resume, aspiring Lok Saba candidates from AAP tickets will also have to furnish about 100 signatures from voters in the electoral constituency, along with their election card numbers.

According to local AAP leaders, the move is to choose “the most deserving” candidates from Vadodara. According to them, aspiring candidates can fill up the 12-page nomination form that requires them to furnish details about their association with AAP, the number of active members they have been able to make for the party and their active social work and involvement in the party so far.

AAP’s media spokesperson Bhushan Bhatt said, “We are following the process since Delhi elections. If the person claims that he is extremely deserving to contest elections, he or she should be able to get at least 100 people to vouch for that. This will act as a filter in itself to be able to find the right candidate. We do not want to be seen as doing partiality in the selection of the candidates.”